The last Meccano factory in the world is closing.
What a lost opportunity. Lego before there was a Lego and clearly despite attempts to move with the times it failed.
The only surprise?
There was still a Meccano factory in 2023!
🎵 Can’t Find My Way Home … Winwood, Clapton .. oh - and Trucks.
A friend of mine down under shared with me … seemed a pertinent message at this point time … not to say it is just gorgeous.
If you are paying attention .. thankyou. I knew somebody would be, it is clear you have a discerning taste and a very specific eye for detail 😂. You might also have been wondering whether or not I can keep up this rate of posting on this blog. Maybe. But I won’t be. By the weekend I will likely be back to a more gentle cadence.
A good few weeks saw a raft of work and changes to the blog to make it easier to navigate, find stuff and provide more structure to what is at this time of writing. (Even if it is only for me!)
Bottom line, I have been making sense of
- 24 pages and 54 categories, 7,798 posts and 12,010 replies … and counting.
Not to say that I have recognized that what I have here (other than that other archive) is actually ‘A Public Journal’.
The blog was officially renamed today Thoughts As They Are Thought gives way to A Public Journal.
‘🎥 MyFilmReviews’ and ‘🎬 MyFilmReferences’ are now clearly delineated and once the MicroBlog category filter catches up and gets back into synch it will be a lot easier to find relevant posts.
PS - I am fully aware that only I care about (or even use) the categories.
🎙️Lockhead talking about the Monster Category Battle of Microsoft vs Google - except it isn’t.
Google’s category is ‘search’. Microsoft’s is ‘answers’. Very different.
Is he right?
February 22nd.
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📺 Breaking Bad
I know. I know - but I have only just finished it. I can’t believe it took me so long. For those who haven’t yet watched it. Give it a whirl.
FFS … I just want a cup of coffee Howard.
Why Starbucks bets olive-oil-infused coffee will be its next big drink (apple news)
I find the phrase “not an exact science” interesting. We all use it and it probably has its roots back to the days when we all thought science was exact. These days, science (even Maths?) seems to be more of an ongoing and emerging suite of hypotheses that we keep refining.
I don’t expect the phrase to change anytime soon, so I guess we can file it away with the ever-increasing number of idioms (is that the right word?) in our day-to-day language usage.
Clever. (For people that don’t know - Trader Joe’s is a very popular food store across the USA.)
Why your favorite local restaurant might throw away its menu this year. (apple news)
I get it - but isn’t ‘choice’ a quintessential differentiation that America has - to distinguish it from the rest of the world?
Of course choice has its costs (hence that restaurant’s decision). Just think that when you order your eggs, bacon and coffee at the local diner, there are close to 1,000 potential permutations that the short order cook has to juggle. That surely is one reason why some diners say ‘no substitutions'.
I just wish that they would have started by cutting back on the choice of toothpaste first.
Hannah Waddingham to Host Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (apple news)
In this headline, I find reason to tune into Eurovision. I still won’t, but for the first time ever it is conscious decision.
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside.”
💬 Ursula K. Le Guin
“Unnoticeable life. Noticeable failure.”
💬 Franz Kafka
Diary entry on February 20th, 101 years ago.
If only he knew.
(via Diaries of Note )
And we have 3 in the race … go Vivek.
Sorry, who?
Interesting🔗 article on the cost of coordination.
That said, it’s mainly a webmention test.
In Wisconsin’s supreme court race, a super-rich beer family calls the shots.
Telling …
In one corner …
Tuesday’s election for a Wisconsin supreme court position has been the target of huge amounts of Uihlein money – surprisingly, on both sides of the political divide. On one side stand the billionaire couple Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, owners of the Wisconsin-based shipping supplies company Uline, who are on track to pump millions of dollars into the race in support of a conservative judicial candidate, Dan Kelly.
And, in the other corner
On the other side, Richard’s cousin Lynde Bradley Uihlein, a prominent funder of progressive causes, has already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the liberal-leaning judges vying for the supreme court seat.
I’m pretty sure that the conservatives ‘pumping millions’ see it as an ‘investment’ and the democrats .. well - not so much.
🎛️🎙️ Embrace The Future
The excerpt is not the main thrust of the podcast, but neatly summarizes the problem of rejecting, rather than embracing, what is clearly something that is part of the future.
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ Why The Future Belongs To Intellectual Capitalists
If you love blue album covers AND/OR you didn’t know that blue album covers were a thing, then 🔗 The Feminine Blue Mystique - by Rachel Cabitt is the place for you.